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B-277827.5 1 (1999-04-29)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptajef0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Comptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Matter of: Marquette Medical Systems, hie. File: B-277827.5; B-277827.7 Date: April 29, 1999 Mitchell W. Quick, Esq., Michael, Best & Friedrich, for the protester. William M. Weisberg, Esq., and Monica C. Parchment, Esq., Tucker Flyer, for Hewlett- Packard Company, an intervenor. Col. Nicholas P. Retson, and Maj. Jonathan C. Guden, Department of the Army, for the agency. Peter A. Jannicelli, Esq., and Michael R. Golden, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Where solicitation for a fixed-price contract stated that offerors could propose either to provide new items or to upgrade the existing ones and that proposed prices would be calculated by adding the total proposed price for the basic requirement to the prices proposed for all option periods, agency improperly deviated from solicitation's evaluation criteria when it adjusted proposed prices to take into account the agency's expectations of savings associated with the offer of new items and additional costs associated with upgraded ones. 2. Agency's normalization of offerors' prices was not reasonable where it double counted the cost difference associated with the use of new rather than upgraded existing items by both deducting the price of new items from the total price of the offeror proposing them and adding the price of replacement items to the price of the offeror proposing to upgrade existing ones. 3. Protest ground alleging that technical evaluation of awardee's proposal was improper is denied where there is ample support in the record for the evaluators' determination that the awardee had extensive prior experience and for the evaluators' high rating of the awardee's proposal on quality of technical approach.

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